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ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book Eugene Burdick - The 480 (1964)	mcgraw-hill h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by diane dillon, leo dillon (unsigned, credited as the dillons on d-j front flap) cover (d-j) price $5.00 328pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book Eugene Burdick - Fail-Safe (1963)	hiding a known author's name behind ''various authors'' on bookcat does *not* promote their co-author's name to equal importance; the co-author's listing remains in ''appearances'': the lead author appears to be chosen either by the contributor, randomly, or - possibly - by an alphabetical order sorting (?on surname? - ?on full name accorded starting with first name?) - - this is not by any means as good as giving them equal weighting, and having their collaborations appear in both authors' primary listings -- but this latter would take the writing of some code, its testing, sorting out any bijoux bugglets that appeared - and take up valuable time of the divine o.c. (if s/he exists).
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book Eugene Burdick - Fail-Safe (1963)	eugene burdick was an author with a track record in writing novels, generally with a strong political theme, and often near-future set: not always borderline sf, but quite liable to be so. harvey wheeler was a ''political scientist'' - people are debating whether political science exists still, half a century on - and a scholar with a track record of publications within his field, but none in fiction or political fiction outside of his two collaborations with eugene burdick. another collaborator on two politically-themed novels with eugene burdick was william lederer, who was primarily a military officer in the u.s. navy (1930-1946 i believe), after serving as a line officer becoming a public information officer and political adviser to the commander-in-chief pacific, admiral felix stump. aside of his collaborations, he wrote lighthearted and humorous novels, and children's novels, and non-fiction reporting on and analysing merkin political failures in south-west asia, and suggesting ways, methods, strategies and political tactics that he developed with eugene burdick that they considered much more liable to be successful, than the application of pure military force. their arguments led in at least some part to the establishment of the peace corps in 1951 by president john f. kennedy. - given the above, i think it is perfectly reasonable to acknowledge these two as collaborators with the primary career adult political fiction author, eugene burdick.
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book Kate Wilhelm - The Clone (1969)	co-author's christian/first name should be re-corrected back to ''thomas'' (not ''thomasr'')
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book John Norman - Marauders Of Gor (1979)	w. h. allen/howard & wyndham star books imprint p/b first printing, third printing of the tandem books setting, retains the tandem books isbn cover art by chris achilleos (signed with his a-in-a-circle, uncredited, retained from second tandem books printing) cover price 95p, £1.00c malta, $3.50 australia, $2.90 new zealand, $2.25 canada° 352pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° it seems rather unlikely that w. h. allen / howard & wyndham could distribute/have their editions distributed legally in canada, as daw books, inc. (the originating publisher) produced printings of their own mmpb specifically for canadian distribution, later canadian-merkin dual-priced mmpbs, and presumably retained the rights.
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book John Norman - Marauders Of Gor (1977)	publisher may need varying to universal, depending on the imprint on the title page.
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book John Norman - Marauders Of Gor (1977)	howard & wyndham/w. h. allen tandem books (universal imprint on front cover) p/b second printing with new cover art by chris achilleos (signed with his a-in-a-circle) cover price 352pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising may bear a w, w-in-a--box, stylised w-in-a-box or stylised w logo on the back cover
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book John Norman - Marauders Of Gor (1976)	tandem books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art unsigned, uncredited; still as-yet unattributed cover price 60p (overseas territories prices?) 352pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book John Norman - Marauders Of Gor (1985)	this could well have been the last daw books printing of ''marauders of gor''; ten years was a pretty common duration of the licence granted by authors or their agents to publish a book. 8/1998 saw the publication of the first masquerade books edition.
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book John Norman - Marauders Of Gor (1985)	daw books mmpb seventeenth printing, cover redesign retains cover art by richard hescox, severely cropped to fit new cover design b+w interior illustrations by (frank) kelly freas retained cover price (canada $4.50) • u.s. $3.50 300pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book John Norman - Marauders Of Gor (1977)	daw books mmpb undated° eighth printing by indicia publishing history number line, with new cover art by richard hescox (signed with his stylised logo, credited) interior b+w illustrations by (frank) kelly freas retained from earlier printings cover price $1.75 300pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° date taken from locus refer to indicia publishing history printing number line to distinguish from near-identical further printings: also cat# and isbn change with rising cover price: ninth UE1295 $1.75 0-87997-295-5 tenth UJ1369 $1.95 0-87997-369-2 near-meaningless daw books collector no. dropped from front cover eleventh UE1465 $2.25 0-87997-465-6 twelfth UE1465 $2.25 0-87997-465-6 thirteenth UE1465 $2.25 0-87997-465-6 fourteenth UE1676 $2.75 0-87997-676-4 fifteenth UE1676 $2.75 0-87997-676-4 sixteenth UE1901 $2.95 0-87997-901-1 3/1985 cover redesign, cover art by richard hescox retained but cropped to fit new design: seventeenth UE2025 (canada $4.50) • u.s. $3.50 0-88677-025-4 this seventeenth printing may well be the last daw books mmpb printing of ''marauders of gor''
ppint. 25th Mar 2023		Book John Norman - Marauders Of Gor (1975)	daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by (frank) kelly freas (unsigned, credited) interior b+w illustrations also by kelly freas (signed & unsigned, credited) near-meaningless daw books collector no. 141 cover price $1.50 304pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing, march, 1975/123456789 also to distinguish between near-identical undated reprintings up to (not including) 3/1970; cover art cat#, cover price change with 3/1970 eighth printing by number line the indicated 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th are wholly merkin-printed, for general distribution, progressively dropping numbers from the printing history number line, retrospectively deeming the canadian-carcassed first printing to have been the second printing; but by the time the 4th printing sold out, someone at new american library (who actually organised the printing, binding, distribution of daw books) noticed that the second canadian-carcassed printing had been indicated as the 2nd printing by its number line, and retrospectively deemed it to have been the 5th printing, so the 4th wholly merkin printing was followed by the 6th, as indicated by its printing number line. this problem arose repeatedly with the new american library's accounting of its own signet books imprint mmpbs as well as with the daw books mmpbs it produced: to start with, nobody noticed, and the re-printings' allocated numbers rose independently in merkia and canada; not only was it theoretically possible for separate reprintings to bear the same reprinting number, but this actually occurred quite commonly for popular titles; then someone noticed, and this method was adopted, of skipping numbers in the merkin printing number sequence to allow for canadian-carcassed reprintings that had been produced numbered on from the canadian first printing (which in the meantime had been deemed to have been the second printing in the accounting of the wholly merkin-printed reprints); this method of retrospectively skipping numbers in the merkin reprints' number line accounting was not foolproof, and it also gave rise to situations where actually simultaneous canadian and merkin reprints' numbers were wildly adrift from one another; somewhat later on, the simultaneous reprints of canadian-carcassed and wholly merkin-printed mmpbs were allocated adjacent numbers in the printing number line. all such pairs that i've been able to check have the lower of the two numbers allocated to the wholly merkin-printed reprint.
ppint. 24th Mar 2023		Book Groff Conklin - 17 X Infinity (1964)	contents: introduction (nf) groff conklin the simian problem (short story) hollis alpert, f&sf vol.18 #7, 7/1960 strikebreaker (ss) isaac asimov, ''original'' science fiction stories vol.7 #4, 1/1957 come into my cellar (ss) ray bradbury, galaxy vol.21 #1, 10/1962; galaxy thorpe & porter bre #92; argosy uk 3/1963; aka ''boys! raise giant mushrooms in your cellar!'' in ''the machineries of joy'' (1964) ms fnd in a lbry (ss) hal draper, f&sf vol.21 #6, 12/1961 as ''ms fnd in a lbry or, the day civilization collapsed'' cato the martian (ss) howard fast, f&sf vol.18 #6, 6/1960; f&sf atlas bre vol.1 #10, 9/1960 the spaceman cometh (ss) henry gregor felsen, colliers 11/11/1955; f&sf vol.10 #4, 4/1956 the machine stops (novelette) e. m. forster, the oxford & cambridge review michaelmas term/1909 frances harkins (ss) richard goggin, f&sf vol.3 #8, 12/1952 the day they got boston (ss) h. l. gold, f&sf vol.21 #3, 9/1961; f&sf atlas bre vol. iii #2, 1/1962 a-w-f, unlimited (ntte) frank herbert, galaxy vol.19 #5, 6/1961; galaxy thorpe & porter bre #86 as easy as a. b. c. (ntte) rudyard kipling, 1912 macdonough's song (poem) rudyard kipling, the london magazine, 3/1912 - 4/1912 silenzia (ss) alan nelson, f&sf vol.5 #3, 9/1953; f&sf mellifont bre vol.2 #1 (#5), 2/1954 what to do until the analyst comes (ss) frederik pohl, imagination vol.7 #1, 2/1956, as ''everybody's happy but me!'' short in the chest (ss) margaret st. clair, fantastic universe vol.2 #1, 7/1954 as by idris seabright the last of the spode (ss) evelyn e. smith, f&sf vol.4 #6, 6/1953 never underestimate (ss) theodore sturgeon, if vol.1 #1, 3/1952
ppint. 24th Mar 2023		Book Groff Conklin - 17 X Infinity (1964)	mayflower books mayflower dell imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition reprint anthology of fourteen short stories, three novelettes and a poem, introduction by the editor cover art unsigned, uncredited; shared from the dell books mmpb first edition cover price 3/6 272pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end p. distinguish from near-identical mayflower-dell imprint p/b 1965 second printing, which differs: cover price 5/- and indicia publishing history adds statement of 1965 reprinting
ppint. 24th Mar 2023		Book Kate Wilhelm - City Of Cain (1978)	simon & schuster pocket books imprint mmpb simultaneous first printings, first p/b edition cover art (unsigned, uncredited; still as-yet unattributed sfaik though style is quite distinctive) cover price $1.95 canadian-carcassed & maple leaf-bearing copies intended for distribution north of the parallel cover price $1.75 wholly merkin-printed copies intended for general distribution 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 24th Mar 2023		Book Kate Wilhelm - Margaret And I (1972)	ballantine books imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by jennifer eachus cover price $1.25 216pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 24th Mar 2023		Book Kate Wilhelm - The Year Of The Cloud (1971)	playboy press mmpb first printing, first p/b edition bears only the copyright year date of 1970, the date of the doubleday merkin h/cvr first edition° cover art by james spanfeller (unsigned, credited) cover price 95¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. ° 1971 publication date obtained by interpolation into known dates of playboy press mmpbs theodore l. thomas is credited on the cover as ''ted thomas''
ppint. 24th Mar 2023		Book Kate Wilhelm - Let The Fire Fall (1970)	lancer books mmpb first printing, first p/b edition bears only the year date 1969, which is the publication date of the doubleday h/cvr first edition; this first lancer mmpb printing could have appeared very late (11 or 12/)1969 cover art by milton glaser (unsigned, uncredited; re-used at thumbnail size from doubleday h/cvr first edition, where it is credited on d-j back flap) cover price 75¢ 286pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 24th Mar 2023		Book Kate Wilhelm - Let The Fire Fall (1974)	granada publishing group panther books ltd. panther imprint uk p/b second printing cover art by christopher foss (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 35p, $1.20 australia & new zealand, $1.20 canada 192pp. including 6pp. titles, indicia, half title etc, 4 end pp: 1p. blank, 3pp. advertising: 1p. each ''sci fan and fi'', ''sci fi'', ''storytelling'' bears the nine-digit sbn entered in the isbn10 field on front cover and spine; an isbn is trivially derivable from this, but there is none such on the book's cover.
ppint. 24th Mar 2023		Book Terry Carr - Best Science Fiction Of The Year 4 (1975)	contents: introduction (nf) terry carr we purchased people (short story) frederik pohl, in ''final stage'' eds. edward l. fernan, barry n. malzberg (1974; corrected text 1975) pale roses (novelette) michael moorcock, in new worlds 7'' eds. hilary bailey, charles platt (1974) with b+w illustration by jim cawthorn the hole man (ss) larry niven, analog vol. xcii #5, 1/1974 with a b+w illustration by jack gaughan born with the dead (novella) robert silverberg, f&sf vol.46 #4, 4/1974 the cover story, art by ed emshwiller the author of the acacia seed and other extracts from the journal of the association of therolinguistics (ss) ursula k. le guin, in ''fellowship of the stars'' ed. terry carr (1974) dark icarus (ss) bob shaw, science fiction monthly vol.1 #4, 4/1974; if (usa) vol.22 #6, 7-8/1974; if (tandem bre) #4 (ignore this as universal-tandem's tandem books numbering was delusional; vol.22 #6 & 7-8/1974 merkin date on internal masthead) a little something for us tempunauts (ntte) philip k. dick, in ''final stage'' ibid. on venus, have we got a rabbi (ntte) william tenn, in ''wandering stars'' eds. jack dann, gardner dozois (1974) the engine at heartspring's center (ss) roger zelazny, analog vol. xciii #5, 7/1974 if the stars are gods (ntte) gregory benford, gordon eklund, in ''universe 4'' ed. terry carr (1974) honorable mentions (nf) terry carr ° the science fiction year (nf) charles n. brown (the founder-editor & publisher of locus) ° - omitted from the victor gollancz uk h/cvr edition
ppint. 24th Mar 2023		Book Terry Carr - Best Science Fiction Of The Year 4 (1975)	victor gollancz h/cvr first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition reprint anthology of five short stories, four novelettes and a novella, introduction & afterword by the editor, omits the annual overview by the editor of locus cover (d-j) art (none; typographical in magenta & black cover on ''gollancz yellow'' field) cover (d-j) price £3.75 272pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 24th Mar 2023		Book Terry Carr - The Best Science Fiction Of The Year #4 (1975)	random house group ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition reprint anthology of five short stories, four novelettes and a novella, introduction & afterword by the editor, overview by the editor of locus cover art (none; typographical cover unsigned, uncredited) cover price $1.95 320pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed, no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing, july 1975 and to distinguish also from 10/1976 near-identical ballantine books mmpb second printing on same cat# & sbn, bearing same cover price
ppint. 24th Mar 2023		Book Milton Lesser - Secret Of The Black Planet (1965)	#jimess yes, indeed; yr hmbl srppnt.'d be up for more discussion of the qualities - or lack thereof - of quite a few of bookcat's items, and'd be interested in reading more brief - but coherent! - reviews of items where the reviewers're not inclined to devote thought to a lengthy considered criticism (not all published items're worthy of critical plaudits - or even much analysis); - and i wish i had a scanner, to provide images of the covers, and sometimes interior illustrations, of my books° (and record covers'n'labels). . . (° - a non-leaking roof's a bit higher a priority, though; and the odd new window, too)
ppint. 23rd Mar 2023		Book Kate Wilhelm - The Killing Thing (1972)	granada publishing panther books imprint third printing with new cover art (unsigned, uncredited; style is reminiscent of peter elson but this is not an attribution) cover price 30p, 75c south africa, $3.00 singapore, 95c australia & new zealand, 95c canada 144pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising there is an additional digit, a ''2'', beneath the sbn on the front cover; most or all granada publishing group p/bs of the period bear such a digit; it could indicate the month of publication, but its meaning is not yet known for certain.
ppint. 23rd Mar 2023		Book Kate Wilhelm - The Clone (1968)	robert hale & co. first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art by colin andrews cover (d-j) price 18/- 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 23rd Mar 2023		Book Kate Wilhelm - The Clone (1969)	mayflower books imprint p/b first printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by david davies cover price 4/- 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising
ppint. 23rd Mar 2023		Book Kate Wilhelm - The Clone (1965)	berkley publishing group berkley medallion imprint mmpb first printing, first edition cover art by hoot von zitzewitz (signed hoot, uncredited) cover price 50¢ 144pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 23rd Mar 2023		Book Kate Wilhelm - Abyss (1973)	contents: the plastic abyss (novella) (original to this collection) stranger in the house (nlla) f&sf vol.34 #2, 2/1968, the cover story, the striking art is by ron walotsky
ppint. 23rd Mar 2023		Book Kate Wilhelm - Abyss (1973)	national general group bantam books, inc. bantam imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition collection of two novellas/short novels, one original to this collection sub-title is given only on the title page cover art by lou feck (signed, uncredited) cover price 95¢ 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, 2 end pp: 1p. v.v.brief para. ''about the author'', 1p. “out of this world!” short ten-title sf stocklist/mail-order form dated 11/73 publishing history misleadingly credits what is referred to as mercury press edition published 1967, which actually only refers to one of the two novellas, and to its copyright date, not its publication date.
ppint. 23rd Mar 2023		Book Jack Vance - Cugel's Saga (1986)	wm collins sons grafton books imprint p/b first printing, second printing of panther / granada publishing p/b edition suitably emended for the taken-over publisher imprint; though it's stated inside that this was a grafton uk paperback original 1985, it wasn't. cover art by geoff taylor (unsigned, credited on back cover; re-used from panther / granada p/b) of price £2.50, $7.95 australia, $9.95 new zealand 372pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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